Cant remove onedrive personal from taskbar

dsdsvdfvfde54t said:

Right. Am I disabling it properly in that video? They took out the checkbox indicating Files On demand Status.

This is how you now turn off 'Files On Demand':

Farvatten said:

This is how you now turn off 'Files On Demand':

Did you watch the screen recording? This is what it looks like on the latest version, clicking the red button just opens the onedrive holder and does not remove these columns. This is after a fresh installation of onedrive after all trace files/ registry has been cleared.

dsdsvdfvfde54t said:

This is what it looks like on the latest version, clicking the red button just opens the onedrive holder and does not remove these columns. This is after a fresh installation of onedrive after all trace files/ registry has been cleared.

Being fully up to date with my OneDrive version, I WAS curious why you didn't have the 'Files On Demand' [On - Off] slider switch in your video like I showed in my Settings screen shot.

Curious enough to turn it on, at which point the slider option has now been replaced forever with that dialog you displayed.


And while all my files are already local, I clicked the 'Download all files' anyway, at which point the next time I opened OneDrive, the 'Status' Column appeared and now can't be removed.

So it looks like new installs are now stuck with this 'Status' column.


Apparently even while being on the latest OneDrive version, because I've always had 'Files On Demand' [Off], my Settings UI still showed the switch, only moving to the new UI after it gets set to 'On'.

Of course new installs never see the old slider switch now.

OneDrive Files On-Demand for Windows: FAQ 'Why don't I see the option to disable Files On-Demand?'

Wow. Microsoft truly screwed the pooch with this one. Looks like more reasons to switch to gdrive/dropbox. Why is microsoft overiding the user's preference by forcing these columns to reappear? That is why M$ sucks. No respect for the user and their preferences.